St John‘s College Personal Collections

Six small notebooks containing manuscript notes re Latin grammar

Mayor/B/B4
File
1860 (Circa)

Part of Notebooks of John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor

The volumes all contain a printed almanack for 1860.

Mayor, John Eyton Bickersteth (1825-1910) classical scholar

Notebooks of John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor

Mayor
Fonds
1650–1910 (Circa)

Manuscript notebooks owned and compiled by Mayor, mostly classical and biographical.

Mayor, John Eyton Bickersteth (1825-1910) classical scholar

Notebook containing manuscript notes re Latin grammar, some names and addresses

Mayor/B/B5
Item
1857 (Circa)

Part of Notebooks of John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor

The volume contains a printed almanack for 1857.

Mayor, John Eyton Bickersteth (1825-1910) classical scholar

Manuscript volume labelled 'Diarium Marianum'

Mayor/B/B18
Item
1880–1888 (Circa)

Part of Notebooks of John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor

A chronology of events mostly relating to English religious history covering 6 July 1553 to 4 July 1554. Each page is devoted to a single day and many days have no entries. Mayor's sources appear chiefly to have been Strype, Stow, Machin, Foxe, and Fleury.

Mayor, John Eyton Bickersteth (1825-1910) classical scholar

Manuscript volume labelled 'Athenae Britannicae, 1854'

Mayor/B/B17
Item
1854–1910 (Circa)

Part of Notebooks of John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor

Contains extensive biographical notes arranged in alphabetical order. Mayor appears to have used this volume up to 1910.

For Mayor's account of his biographical collections and indexes see 'Notes and Queries' 5th series, vol. 12 (1879), p.510. See also Mayor, 'Twelve Cambridge sermons' (1911) p.lx.

Inscription 'S.T. Coleridge March 20, 1804' pasted onto flyleaf. Mayor's bookplate inside front cover.

Mayor, John Eyton Bickersteth (1825-1910) classical scholar

Manuscript of 'Jacula Prudentum: verse and prose from the German'